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This is often the main finished account of Catalan phonology ever released. Catalan is a Romance language, occupying a place someplace among French, Spanish, and Italian. it's the first language of six and a part million humans within the northeastern Spain and of the peoples of Andorra, French Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and a small sector of Sardinia.

As a straightforward example, we can take the borrowing of a new morpheme for number; We would like to thank dr. Richard Dury, Istituto Universitario di Bergamo, for the careful revision of a first draft of the English text. Errors and mistakes still present in it are of course the result of our stubbornness. P. Ramat has written §§ 1—4, G. Bernini §§ 5 — 8. The final § 9 has been written by both authors. 26 Paolo Ramat and Giuliano Bernini this implies antecedent borrowing of lexical items containing it, as illustrated by the adoption of the plural morpheme -im in Yidd.

The study of the languages spoken in Europe (as defined by geography) in terms of areal typology and Sprachbünde in a frame derived from classical Balkan linguistics (since Sandfeld 1930; see also Banfi 1985 for a recent survey), and from the — perhaps more convincing — results of investigations on the Indian subcontinent (Masica 1976 among others) and on Central America (Campbell et al. 1986), necessarily involves assessing two crucial conditions of language contact. On the one hand the historical-cultural, and hence sociolinguistic likelihood of mutual influence between the languages in question; on the other hand the merely linguistic likelihood — i.